Chapter 304

It was an ordinary day off, and Ieiri Shoko was shopping with her senior, Utahime Iori.

Although Tokyo is very hot in the summer, the air conditioning in the shopping mall is turned on very well, so the two beautiful girls who have not yet entered the life of office workers enjoy the air conditioning in the mall comfortably, while strolling from store to store according to the plan - although the course schedule of a private religious school is very leisurely, it is a rare rest time to be able to leisurely go shopping in the commercial district.

Ieiri Shoko followed behind Iori Utahime, looking at her senior who had dressed up carefully today and was holding a cup of milk tea with a satisfied look on her face. Both of them came to Tokyo Metropolitan Jutsu High School because of their family's request. It was said that their families were very knowledgeable about the mysterious side in the past, but after December 7, 1989, all the families related to the mysterious side seemed to have completely lost their power.

——without exception.

However, the old men in the upper echelons did not accept this result, so starting from that year, the technical colleges in Tokyo and Kyoto forced every family's children of school age to choose between the two technical colleges. The main area of ​​control of the upper echelons was still the Kyoto Prefectural Jutsu High School, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Jutsu High School had already been secretly reforming and integrating into ordinary society.

So, not wanting to be away from her family and go to Kyoto, Irishoko met An Utahime, who had fled from Kyoto, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School. In order to integrate into ordinary society, the curriculum of the Tokyo school has been integrated with that of ordinary high schools.

——Among a host of confusing subjects, Ieiri Shoko chose a medical-related direction; and after careful consideration, An Utahime decided to return home and inherit the job of a shrine maiden after graduation.

"Why did you choose medicine? Being a doctor must be very troublesome, right?" Iori Utahime, who was in charge of collecting new students' applications at the time, asked Ieiri Shoko.

"Although saying I want to save people or something like that would make me look more normal...?" Ieiri Naoko tilted her head towards the senior and gave her answer with a smile, "But, I want to feel the feeling of a human body being cut apart bit by bit by a blade - I want to experience the feeling of controlling the life of another person."

"Besides, why did you go back home to inherit the shrine after graduation?"

"Because being a shrine maiden is actually quite leisurely - my home is not a super famous and popular shrine like Fushimi Inari Taisha."

——In this way, Ieiri Shoko and Iori Utahime became familiar with each other.

But, it seems like something is missing - Ieiri Shoko always thinks so.

——Her college life should not be so peaceful. There should be two noisier and more vicious classmates around her.

"Noseko, what were you thinking about just now?" Iori Utahime, who was pulling Naoseko to choose a movie, put a newly bought glass of cold carbonated drink on the cheek of the junior, turned around and asked her with a smile, "It's not a good thing to be distracted in front of your senior - by the way, how about we watch this movie?"

"Ah, nothing - let's just watch this one." Ieiri Naoko shook her head, took the cold carbonated drink from Iori Utahime's hand, and agreed to accompany Iori Utahime to watch a famous animated drama. The moment she passed the ticket gate, she subconsciously answered Iori Utahime's previous question, "I just think... I think I should get to know two pretty bad bastards in the same period."

“That’s all.”

After once again leaving the range of the Curse World Tree, the Chaldeans, who have received many new commissions from the world consciousness, are busy selecting the next world to go to - due to the requirements of the main members, the new mission world cannot be as high-risk as the two worlds of Curse or Saints.

“…After all, among the worlds we’ve been to, only the Second Curse World can be considered high-risk, right? After all, isn’t that the only place where the Grand Servants are deployed?” Roman, who had just gotten off work from the control room, was dragged into the meeting room to discuss the selection of commissions. He could only helplessly express his opinion to everyone, “A non-high-risk world doesn’t mean that wars can be avoided—wouldn’t it be clearer to ask Ritsuka what kind of world he wants?”

"Ritsuka said she wanted to take Mash over there later." Pepeloncino, who had been sitting nearby, joined the discussion.

“That is, try to choose the type of Main Story where the main world is based on daily life?” El-Melloi II concluded.

"That's the mission, right?" Rin Tosaka, who was sitting with Shirou Emiya looking at the mission information, slapped a mission in front of everyone. "The commission from the other side is just for us to recover the Holy Grail, there are no other additional requirements - Ritsuka should have come into contact with the protagonist in this world... If you want to have a leisure vacation in addition to the mission, this world should be the most suitable, right?"

"Um?"

"Main world name: Unpleasant Monster Hermitage & Fictional Reasoning

Category: Alaya

Requirement: Recover the Holy Grail that appeared out of nowhere. 』

"There is no requirement to separate the two worlds?" Lenise stared at the mission information, as if she wanted to stare a hole in this thin piece of paper.

"It is said that the backgrounds of the two worlds are very compatible, so they have been perfectly integrated together." Muniel, who is responsible for receiving visiting world consciousness, replied.

"So this is it?"

People in the conference room exchanged glances, trying to reach a consensus.

"I'll go inform Ritsuka." Roman reached out and picked up the mission information, ending the meeting. "We'll continue our journey after a short rest. Ritsuka will select the most suitable Heroic Spirit to go with her on this mission. Da Vinci will calculate the coordinates. Amphitrite and Noah have returned to their posts to control Chaldea's direction."

"Finally... for now, try not to come into contact with the new beast. We are not yet able to control the curse from it, so it would be safer for everyone to stay away from it. You can also notify Heroic Spirits you know, as Ritsuka may not have time to notify the entire Throne of Heroes."

"Can't Noah go?"

"...Not every Heroic Spirit reads the Heroic Spirit Chat Room - for example, Merlin, me, and King Gilgamesh."

In the end, only the minimum number of people to maintain the operation of Chaldeas and Sheba was left in the control room. In order to get more employees to rest, Lansemero and Roman captured the demons who were maintaining the operation of instruments in other departments and brought them to the control room to work overtime. Because the autonomously generated General Bureau of the 72 Pillars of Demons, Gaetia, was destroyed at the end of the Human Burning, the management rights of these demons were now transferred to Floros, who created Sheba.

"If we wake up and find you doing something in the control room again, you'll be thrown into a nuclear power plant and used as a furnace to generate electricity for all of Chaldea." Before returning to his room, Lansemello stood outside the door and threatened Floros, who had caused the explosion in the control room and caused a sharp decrease in the number of Chaldeans. "You are not allowed to be lazy, and you are not allowed to let the other guys mess up... Forget it, if there is any problem, I will impeach you to the king."

The demons who had not yet cleared their negative impressions of the King took a deep breath, squeezed out Floros who was standing in the front, and tried to prove to the current contractors that they would never be lazy or cause trouble - they almost wanted to bring out the long-dead Unification Bureau and beat them up again.

Floros expressionlessly suppressed the group of colleagues who only knew how to make trouble, nodded to Lansemero, manually closed the door of the control room, and cut off the power supply systems of all unnecessary areas except the control room and the living system - the lights in the Chaldea corridor were turned off one by one, and the only lights in the dark observatory were the lighting magic and flashlights of the magicians and researchers who had not yet gone to bed and had not been put away.

However, there were a few members who had not returned to their rooms and were still wandering outside - for example, the three people who stopped in front of the corridor window overlooking the sea of ​​stars.

"I thought both of you went back." Lansemero tugged at the cape of the Magic Association uniform and looked up at the two people who had not met privately for a long time. "The king only accompanied me to capture those demons and put them in the control room. Maris also left the control room earlier..."

"I had something to do with Kirsh and Mary." Marinette spoke and simply answered Lansemero, his eyes still fixed on the brilliant sea of ​​stars outside the window.

"After all, you are their legitimate contractor now." The white-haired king stood beside the former protector and helplessly answered the student's slightly accusatory words, "I think you should give them a few words next, so I'll leave first - it just so happens that Maris asked me to come here to watch the stars."

"It seems that I am the only one who came uninvited." Lanser-Mero calmly summarized the current situation and joined the stargazing activity that was supposed to be only for the two of them. "The sea of ​​stars here is different from what we see on Earth - Maris, what are you looking at? This sea of ​​stars is just an illusion of many worlds, not real stars."

"I was just thinking about the world that Ritsuka will go to next time." Marinesberry mentioned the information of the mission, "It's a rare world where two worlds are truly integrated into one. Although the world of Shibuya Anomaly seems to be the same, it is not as harmonious as this world..."

"The world of that anomaly should still be dominated by the world of spells." Lansemello quickly found the corresponding memory in his mind and took over Marisbury's words, "This world - just like the root is composed of two major inhibitory forces? The two worlds have achieved a wonderful balance?"

"That's about it." Solomon replied to Lansermero with a smile, "I'm just wondering if there is a mistake in our world genealogy modeling..."

"Of course the same spectrum is tree-shaped, right? If they are different spectrums... maybe they are like different bubbles." Lansermello turned his head to look at the sea of ​​stars outside, "You can also say they are like planets. Of course, this is only the case in the same dimension. If it is a high-dimensional and low-dimensional world, maybe we need to prepare a new model."

"Um?"

"The higher-dimensional world receives nourishment from countless lower-dimensional worlds. The lower-dimensional world will appear in the higher-dimensional world in various forms, such as novels, dramas, comics, animations... or even in person." Lansermello closed his eyes. "The lower-dimensional world is, the more restricted the form it can appear in the higher-dimensional world. But there is no doubt that no matter which higher-dimensional world it is, they will include the stories of the lower-dimensional world."

"…What do you think it looks like?"

"Painting in layers."

“I’ll discuss building a model with the alchemist.” Roman, who had transformed back into a normal human, smiled at the two and ended the stargazing activity. “Okay, then this stargazing activity ends here. Good night, see you tomorrow.”

"Good night, see you next time when you wake up."

"Good night, I hope we all have a good dream."

The observatory floating in the sea of ​​stars fell into complete silence, with only the control room still emitting bright light.